Open link in WebView when tapping a navigation drawer item - android-studio

Question

Followed a tutorial here to create a navigation drawer and worked fine. The webview also loads when the app starts.
My Landing page loads when the app starts:
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
myWebView = findViewById(R.id.activity_main_webview);
WebSettings webSettings = myWebView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
myWebView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());
myWebView.loadUrl("http://192.168.43.105/public_html/central/updates.php");
myWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());}
Url should open when a navigation item was selected:
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(#NonNull MenuItem item) {
int id = item.getItemId();
if (id == R.id.nav_search) {
myWebView.loadUrl("http://192.168.43.105/public_html/central/search.php");
return true;
}
if (actionBarDrawerToggle.onOptionsItemSelected(item)) {
//return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
Drawer Items is located at res>menu>navigation_menu.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:ignore="HardcodedText">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_search"
android:title="Search" />
</menu>
Tried:
String url = "http://192.168.43.105/public_html/central/search.php";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);
And followed this from developer.android.com:
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.nav_search:
String url="http://192.168.43.105/public_html/central/search.php";
myWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
myWebView.loadUrl(url);
return true;
default:
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
I didn't get any error when starting the app. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

For external URL try this:
Uri uri = Uri.parse("https://www.google.com");
startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri));
If you want to web browser open in your activity try this:
WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
WebSettings settings = webview.getSettings();
settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.loadUrl(URL);
and If you want to use the zoom control in your browser then add this also:
settings.setSupportZoom(true);
settings.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);